Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: X86: Rename DR6_INIT to DR6_ACTIVE_LOW

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Feb 02 2021 - 11:09:24 EST


On 02/02/21 16:02, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
On 2/2/2021 10:49 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 02/02/21 10:04, Chenyi Qiang wrote:

 #define DR6_FIXED_1    0xfffe0ff0
-#define DR6_INIT    0xffff0ff0
+/*
+ * DR6_ACTIVE_LOW is actual the result of DR6_FIXED_1 | ACTIVE_LOW_BITS.
+ * We can regard all the current FIXED_1 bits as active_low bits even
+ * though in no case they will be turned into 0. But if they are defined
+ * in the future, it will require no code change.
+ * At the same time, it can be served as the init/reset value for DR6.
+ */
+#define DR6_ACTIVE_LOW    0xffff0ff0
 #define DR6_VOLATILE    0x0001e00f


Committed with some changes in the wording of the comment.

Also, DR6_FIXED_1 is (DR6_ACTIVE_LOW & ~DR6_VOLATILE).

Maybe we can add BUILD_BUG_ON() to make sure the correctness?

We can even

#define DR_FIXED_1 (DR6_ACTIVE_LOW & ~DR6_VOLATILE)

directly. I have pushed this patch to kvm/queue, but the other two will have to wait for Fenghua's bare metal support.

Paolo